Both neat, & I especially like the final couplet of Red Cliff Roos....
On 5-Aug-09, at 2:58 AM, Brian Hawkins wrote:
> HOLIDAY BEACH HOUSE
>
> Someone famous owns that house
> Watch when the neighbours put their bins out
> Ian Turpie
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> RED CLIFF ROOS
>
> Kangaroo people, bright
> eyed in final sun,
> turn and stare at the Pacific.
>
> Flower-handed people, leaf-like
> ears alert, joeys scumbling
> back into pouches,
> roadside mortality putrefaction.
>
> Flower-like bodies dreaming
> out of the sun,
> footsoles long and leathery, grey
> pelts as soft as dusk.
Douglas Barbour
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Each leaf a runnel the
roofs now skiffs in green
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Lisa Robertson
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